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Meem
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a community of queer women and transgenders
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We’re Revamping Our Website
After 3 awesome years of our good old website, we are switching to a new content management system. So you’ll be seeing daily change to this space, till we can officially go live in the new year. Happy 2011 everyone!
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One Day One struggle www.jismi.net
This website is dedicated to the annual “One Day, One Struggle” campaign, a unique effort to underscore the joint struggle against the violation of sexual and bodily rights in Muslim societies, which takes place on November 9. (The Arabic word “Jismi” means “My Body” in English.)
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Do Not Stand With Zionism!
Below is a statement from Arab queer organizations. You can help by writing a letter to the US Social Forum or emailing them.
We, the undersigned queer Arab organizations, are appalled by the US Social Forum’s decision to allow Stand with Us to utilize the event as a platform to pinkwash Israel’s crimes in the region. Stand with Us is cynically manipulating the struggle of queer people in the Middle East through its workshop entitled “LGBTQI Liberation in the Middle East.”
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Beneath the galabiya / Intersex Operations in Assiut, Cairo
Assiut--In the realm of sexual taboos in Egypt, the issue of "intersex individuals"--or those born with "ambiguous genitalia"--is certainly somewhere near the top of the list. While medical professionals take an impartial approach to treatment and surgical operations, social and cultural factors pose a challenge for affected individuals and their families.
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Iraqi Police Raid Karbala Safe House
There is growing concern that the Iraqi government is stepping up a witch-hunt against gays and lesbians in the country after a police raid on a Karbala safe house.
On Tuesday 16th June, twelve police officers burst into the house, then violently beat up, and blindfolded the six occupants sheltering there, before bundling them off in three vans. According to a source who witnessed the raid, the police also confiscated computer equipment before burning down the house.
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Anti gay laws in Africa are product of American religious exports, say activists
From The Times May 22, 2010 Jacqui Goddard in Miami and Jonathan Clayton in Nairobi When he arrived at Kampala’s Hotel Triangle for a three-day conference, the Rev Kapya Kaoma knew that he would not like what he heard. The clue was in the event’s title — “Exposing the truth behind homosexuality and the homosexual [...]
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Bareed Mista3jil – a staged reading of true stories by queer Arab women
Friday June 11 & Saturday June 12; 8:30 pm Exit Theater Café 156 Eddy Street, SF (betw. Mason & Taylor) Tickets at the door: $10 – 25 (cash only) Whether it’s learning and claiming the word Lesbian in defining your desires, coming out to accepting, incredulous, or disparaging parents, or the hilarious trials of finding [...]
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We cant ALL be anti-semites, can we?
By Elle Flanders May 11, 2010 Since this article was written, the federal government has cancelled $397,500 in support for Pride Toronto. The hysteria created around the inclusion of a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) in the Toronto Pride Parade this year can be justly attributed to the ongoing Brand Israel campaign backed [...]
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Why are US doctors allowing genital mutilation?
Paediatricians have erred by suggesting that ‘nicking’ female genitalia should be allowed as a cultural compromise At the end of last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a revised policy statement on female genital mutilation (FGM) called “ritual genital cutting of female minors,” suggesting that the federal and state law in the US [...]
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Bareed Mista3jil Part of a Two Day Conference at UCLA!
Nadia Dropkin, New York University
The Forty-One informants of Bareed Mistajil, A Textual Ethnography of Queer Women and Transgender Persons in Lebanon
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